Coat of arms of Kristinehamn
Kristinehamn’s arms show a red bojort sailing above a blue wavy base on a silver field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en röd bojort seglande på en genom vågskura bildad blå stam.
The Swedish wording in the Heraldica record is registry information; the municipality’s history explains the boat’s connection with the city’s founding.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 1642: In use as of
- 19 September 1941: Royal confirmation on
- 1 November 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The vessel in the arms
The Heraldica record describes a red bojort on a silver field, sailing above a blue base formed by a wavy line. Bojort is the vessel type named in the blazon.
Source: Heraldica record 3181
Shipping and the city’s founding
According to Kristinehamn Municipality’s history, a bojort was placed in the city arms to recall the importance of shipping to the city’s founding. In the late 1990s, a full-size model of the small vessel was built; it is nearly 30 metres long and is named Christine af Bro.
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- bojort
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- base wavy
- unpartitioned
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
